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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Imposition
Reign
Fashion
Freedom

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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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We don't want wars even when we win.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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